Improvement in rein-guides for vehicles



A. D. SMITH.

Rein-Guides for Vehicles.

, N0, 142,127 PatentedAugust26,l873.

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ALPHEUS D. SMITH, OF GRAFTON, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN RElN-GUIDES FO'R VEHICLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,127, dated August26, 1873; application filed February 17, I873.

and arranged in combination with the thills as to prevent the horse frombeing able to catch the rein or reins under his tail, thereby givingadditional security to life, limb, and property, as hereinafter morefully set forth, and shown by the annexed drawing and letters ofreference marked thereon, in which- A, B, and G are perspective views ofparts combined.

My rein-guard B may be constructed from an ordinary rod or strap, of anysuitable mafrom being able to catch the rein or reins under his tail.The height of the guard B above the thills A A depends upon its length,which may be sufficient to admit of any necessary adjustment up anddown. The rein-guard may be made with or without the loop or ring 0,which is for the purpose of retaining the reins, which may be passedthrough it, at a safe distance from being caught and at any given point.By the employment of guard B, which extends up and across from thill tothill, the reins are held off from the horse and from liability of beingcaught by any part of the harness or whiffletree, and requires no extraadjustment of the reins by its use.

I claim as my invention- The rein-guard B, applied to the shafts A,

substantially in the manner shown and set terial, size, and length.Either one or both forth.

ends of the same may be rigidly or adjusta- ALPHEUS D. SMITH. blysecured to the thills A or other convenient Witnesses: parts, as shallat all times hold the rein or A. B. LAMBERT,

reins at such distance as will prevent the horse S. S. ALDEN.

